It's now time for us as business owners to get across the public health orders and review and implement changes, again, to our working business model to ensure we operate our businesses in accordance with the Public Health Orders as set out along the NSW Governments Roadmap for easing restrictions.

We have with us for this Podcast a panel of speakers with the smarts to interpret the information and share their expertise and provide practical insights.

This episode expert panellist’s:

• Christie Howson -Owner of Osborn Law-Christie is a Solicitor and Director at Osborn Law practicing in the areas of employment law and commercial litigation. Osborn Law is a commercial, employment and property law firm situated in the Newcastle CBD that provides a practical legal approach to clients with timely, sound, cost effective and straight forward advice. By way of background Christie has combined Law and Commerce degrees from the University of Newcastle with experience in corporate commercial law and insurance and in multi-disciplinary practices, primarily practising in the areas of employment law and commercial litigation.
• Antony D’Cruz -Regional Engagement Manager, for Service NSW for Business. Antony D’Cruz joined Service NSW in 2016 in the newly created Making Business Easier Project team and was responsible for setting up the now successful Business Concierge Service within Service NSW for Business. Prior to joining Service NSW Antony worked in Investment Banking & the Wealth Management Sector for several years in Sydney.
• Diane Loong – Managing Director at Skildare- Skildare is a leader at providing smart, simple HR strategies and advice with a qualified team on everything HR. From workplace compliance, policies, and procedures to employee performance strategies, Skildare works with their clients to craft practical, cost-effective solutions that enable them to worry less, and focus more on results.

Key topics covered with in our panel Podcast conversation are:

• Interpreting the NSW Public Health Orders as a business owner
• Your vaccinated and un-vaccinated team members
• Supporting your team with challenging and aggressive customers

The Podcast untangles the technocratic, the bureaucratic, and regulatory legal framework that reopening entails. Our panel were tasked to make as clear to us is practical ways we can comply with the health orders in NSW, identifying possible carve outs to legally protect your business in handling situations reopening might bring about so you can go forwards from October 11th to December 1st. We also considered in our answers in the episode the reality that even after we hit the 80% milestone, we will still be living with COVID for some time to come yet. Our shared bottom line is that none of us want to have a transmission event associated with our business, so how do we avoid that or deal with effectively it if it happens.